[CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

[Thomas Johansson]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Johansson <thomasj at isy.liu.se> wrote:
>   
>> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson <thomasj at isy.liu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are
>>>> evaluating if it's worth the trouble on centos. Uppgrading cups is not a
>>>> problem That i have already solved. Further research also states that
>>>> kerberos have to be version 1.6.3. This is a big problem. Neither centos
>>>> 4 nor centos 5 have the required version of kerberos. Compiling my own
>>>> compile kerberos is not something i want to do!
>>>>
>>>> Is it worth it or even possible to upgrade kerberos to 1.6.3 or will we
>>>> most likely break something else with an upgrade?? No rpms are available
>>>> and i suppose there's a reason for that. There's no problem compiling
>>>> cups or kerberos on both platforms. I just wanna find out if it is worth
>>>> the trouble we will get or if it's possible/recommended to do it?!?!.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Upgrading kerberos on CentOS systems is not a trivial task. Kerberos
>>> is a basic component for a lot of packages which requires a large
>>> dependency chain.
>>>       
>> We noticed that. Several pages of dependencies  if one make a yum remove
>> of krb5-workstation. I'm really dont want to try upgrading. Its more
>> like i'm looking for arguments against such a crazy thing.
>>
>>     
>>> I would look at it as follows:
>>>
>>> 1) CentOS-4/5 do not have kerberos needed.
>>> 2) Fedora-10/11 does have the kerberos needed.
>>> 3) CentOS-6 might be based off of Fedora-11.
>>>
>>> Build your proof of concept project with Fedora-10 with a plan of
>>> rebuilding the system after CentOS-6 comes out. Then you have both an
>>> immediate win and a long term plan on how to reach a stable product.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>>       
>> We have figured it out that far. On platforms like Solaris, ubuntu
>> Fedora and others we have no problem printing. The problem is that we
>> have a lot of software that require both centos 5 and centos 4. Cannot
>> abandon centos for those clients. Also, the print project is a solution
>> offered/pushed to us. Obviously we cannot use it on centos. They (the
>> project leaders) have to choose another solution for centos. That will
>> be the answer to the project leaders.
>>     
>
> A last set would be to have a seperate set of kerberos Libraries and
> statically compile the cups you want against those. Its an ugly hack
> but works in those cases.
>   
Excellent tip! We completely missed that. Have now compiled and tested 
this on one client. It works!

Thanks a lot!

Now to the formalities.. My apoligies for kidnapping a thread! A mistake 
that will not happen again..